The NYT’s blogs are set to be paywalled

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11 points·alexandros··8 comments

Conversely, the NYT's blogs are going to end up being "reader-walled" and "traffic-walled" too.

Exactly, are people like Krugman going to accept more than half their audience disappearing?

Let's just call it a grand experiment and see how it goes.

The relative value of blog content vs. actual news items may be quite low in the majority of posts, looking across the general quality / salience of NYT blog posts. Though some blogs like DealBook and Economix probably have high readership, I wonder if people will really be willing to pay for opinionated tidbits.

> I wonder if people will really be willing to pay for opinionated tidbits

I guess it's supply and demand: people will be willing to pay of opinionated writing on the net when there is a shortage of free opinionated writing on the net. I.e. never :-)

They've tried it before.

"Times Select" was a paid feature for access to its opinion columnists (regular news was free), but it lasted just two years: http://paidcontent.org/article/419-new-york-times-to-close-t...

I wonder, too. Some of the NYT's most unique content is on its blogs, though, and they're the only NYT feeds I subscribe to.

My guess is that if Nisenholtz does this, a lot of the branded blogs on nytimes.com, including both Freakonomics and Paul Krugman, will simply leave and set (back) up on their own

I think that's a pretty good guess.

Oh no! If only there were other blogs on the internet.

I suppose I'll just have to get a subscription then.

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